‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence — As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran—thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest their anger at perceived electoral irregularities—an unexpected hashtag began to explode through the Twitterverse: “CNNFail.”

Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran — The western world's most feared government is shaking with insurrection in the streets after a contested election and the leading name in news, CNN, is shockingly absent from the story. Twitter, meanwhile, is how Iranians are communicating with the outside world.

The Revolution Will Be Twittered — Mock not. As the regime shut down other forms of communication, Twitter survived. With some remarkable results. Those rooftop chants that were becoming deafening in Tehran? A few hours ago, this concept of resistance was spread by a twitter message.

Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equals Kill Twitter Vol. 2? — This past Friday, Facebook started issuing vanity URLs to its 200 million plus community. It was a big change for the social networking company that has so far used unique numerical identifications to identify its members.

Google could take a lesson from Bing on porn — There...I've said it. I'm filled with self-loathing for saying it, but Bing's new approach (and the speed with which they rolled it out) is a model for easy avenues to block objectionable content. How many schools/libraries block …

Browsers Cache YouTube Videos — YouTube managed to achieve something incredible: browsers now cache YouTube videos and you can load the same video multiple times from the local cache. Try to go to a YouTube video, wait until the video is buffered and then reload the page.

A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits' Journalism — Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources.

Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google Isn't Twitter) — TECHNOLOGY blogs have wondered whether Google is a lumbering giant in this Twitter moment, unable to handle streams of tweets that were broadcast just seconds earlier. — Google moves faster than some of its critics think.

The App Store Needs A Genius Feature, ASAP — You may not realize it yet, but the App Store is broken. — I spent this week at Apple's WWDC conference in San Francisco talking to quite a few iPhone app developers. One thing that struck me was just how many of them shared the exact same concern with the App Store: App discovery.